Human Rights Education
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Statement on the Food Stamp Program before Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation
When I was in Mississippi with the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, I saw conditions of extreme hunger. I saw people who eat only one meal a day or one meal every two days.
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Statement on the Situation in Nicaragua
Not only the interests of the United States, but those of all the American Republics, are best served by free elections—free of fraud in both voting and registration, and above all free of violence and intimidation by either the government or its legal opponents.
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Senate Speech
For our legacy—to our children, to the next generation of political leaders in the United States—will be far more than what we leave within our boundaries. Its most important element will be the role and standing of the United States in the world— whether, in short, people will look to this country with hope or…
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Senate Speech
We are increasingly an island of affluence and privilege in a world of desperate poverty—
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Senate Speech
The population of this globe grows every day, nowhere faster than in the underdeveloped nations.
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Senate Speech
It is not given to us to right every wrong, to make perfect all the imperfections of the world. But neither is it given to us to sit content in our store houses—dieting while others starve, buying 8 million new cars a year while most of the world goes without shoes. We are simply not…
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Senate Speech
The accomplishments of United States foreign assistance are already substantial— they are being felt in dozens of countries, all over the world.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
If we are going to win the present conflict with the Soviet Union, we can no longer support the exploitation of native people by Western nations.
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Speech in Chicago
Tags Share However wise our efforts may be in unconventional diplomacy and unconventional warfare, however sensible our diversity of weapons and strategy, however great our military power and determined our counteroffensive of ideas, there is yet another obstacle to our opening to the future. That is the image of the future we project by our…
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Speech in Chicago
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. It assumes that people, and nations will often think differently, have the full right to do so, and that diversity is the source of progress
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
Freedom by itself is not enough. “Freedom is a good horse,” said Matthew Arnold, “but a horse to ride somewhere.” What counts is the use to which men put freedom; what counts is how liberty becomes the means of opportunity and growth and justice.
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Address at the 120th Anniversary Dinner of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
There can be no freedom from want without freedom of opportunity; there can be no freedom of opportunity without freedom to learn; there can be no freedom from fear unless each of the other freedoms is attained.
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